Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.

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Racing clear down the left from Jaaskelainen's throw, he bore down on goal but, with only Carson to beat, he clipped his shot wide of the near post.

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As Hurd began his get-acquainted briefings two years ago, he displayed an unerring willingness to bore in and ask the same question over and over again until he could grasp a clear answer.

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